A year after Reese was born, Victoria left Jake. She had enough of her husband and was just ready to get out. She left both of her children with Jake and just left. No one knew where she went or where she was going. Jake got remarried 6 months after Victoria left. He married Lillian Matthews, who’s married name was Lillian Northway. Ryan wasn’t very pleased that his dad got remarried, but Reese was too young to understand. So, Reese grew up her who life thinking Lillian was her real mother. Ryan was too scared to tell Reese the truth, because their dad kept lying and telling them that she was their mother. Why? We never really know why he wanted to lie to Reese, we just know it happened.

Eleven years passed by and Reese Northway was ready to head off to school. She had already got all her school stuff and was just ready to leave. Finally, she got to Hogwarts and was sorted in Slytherin. Her school life was great. She was making a lot of friends and even got her first boyfriend boyfriend.

Then…

One day during her first year, Reese got a letter from her dad saying that her brother, Ryan, had died. This was just a horrible time for Reese. She couldn’t stop crying and she just wanted to go home. A few months passed and it was finally time to go back to home. She left Hogwarts and went back to her family. Lillian and Jake were now starting to think about adopting a brother for Reese, since she needed an older brother there for her. Then, they adopted Reno during that summer before Reese’s 2nd year. Let’s just say, he wasn’t really the brother she needed. He was abusive to her and it finally drove her away from home.

During the summer before her 3th year, Reese moved away from her house in London. She went to live with her godmother, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Turner and her husband. Her husband worked a lot, so Reese barely ever saw him. She lived with the Turner family for about 1 ½ - 2 years. Before she went off for her 4th year, she learned a little secret her dad had been keeping from her. She found this old photo of her family that was taken the day after she was born. She noticed that the lady in that picture didn’t look like her mom. She asked her godmother and she finally got the real story about her mom leaving and her dad remarrying and about how her dad lied to her all these years. And for the first time in her life, Reese got to talk to her mom. She wrote her mother a letter before she left for school and she kept writing to her throughout her 4th year. Her mother had finally came to the decision that she was going to MAKE Reese move to Ireland to live with her. But, Reese didn’t want to move; she wanted to stay in London. To make it worse, her mom started thinking about sending her to a private school instead of Hogwarts. Why? No one knows.

Also, Reese had found out her brother didn’t really die; her mom just came back and got him when she went off to school and since her dad didn’t want her to know about Victoria, her dad lied to Reese and told her Ryan had died. Why didn't Victoria get Reese? Because she was at school.

Through all this bad stuff, a miracle happened:

During the end of the term feast in her 4th year, Victoria (Reese’s mother) met Heath Upstead. They ended up getting married during the Spring and Victoria moved back to London to live there with Heath and his son Dale. Reese went to go live with them and it turned out that she had been related to Jake Upstead, who she went to school with. Heath had also adopted Reese and Ryan as his own children, which legally made them change their last name to Upstead. Happy ending, right?